Super Cine Saturday
Wherever you are, join us on Saturday 16 November for a feast of Festival films!
CIFF is delighted to have teamed up with four cinemas across Cork County: Cinemax Bantry; Gate Cinemas Midleton and Mallow; and Regal Cinema Youghal – who will exclusively show a ‘Taste of CIFF’ with three specially selected feature films from the 69th Festival programme.
The whole family can enjoy a gorgeous, festive family animation featuring a magic reindeer; the premiere of Sinéad O’Shea’s insightful and affecting documentary on the late Edna O’Brien; and must-see metaphysical LGBTQ+ comedy from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
2024 Programme
THE MAGIC REINDEER - SAVING SANTA’S SLEIGH
Fiction
In his third adventure, the flying reindeer boy Niko’s biggest dream is to become a member of Santa’s Flying Forces. But he gets challenged by the super talented reindeer girl Stella who shatters that dream. Niko has to decide between trust and loyalty.
After a tearful goodbye, Niko leaves his family behind to take his place next to his father, Prancer on Santa’s Flying Forces. For Niko, it’s a dream come true: to become a hero, like his father. But Stella an unknown challenger arrives, to compete for Niko’s spot. Despite their competitiveness, Niko admires her, and invites Stella to show her where Santa’s sleigh is hidden. However, on the night before Christmas Eve, Stella steals it. Gutted by Stella’s betrayal and desperate to appease his angry father, Niko heads to the Frozen North to recover the sleigh. Accompanied by his loyal friends, flying squirrel Julius and weasel Wilma. In the ensuing battle, between The Flying Forces and The Storm Forces. Niko and Stella split off to prevent the sleigh from being destroyed. As our heroes face grave danger, difficult choices are made that change Christmas forever.
SAT 16 | CINEMAX BANTRY | 12:00
SAT 16 | GATE MIDLETON | 12:00
SAT 16 | GATE MALLOW | 12:00
SAT 16 | REGAL YOUGHAL | 12:00
BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY
Documentary
With the release of her revolutionary 1960 novel The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien sealed her fate as both a revered novelist and a feminist icon. Blue Road explores her life as a literary sensation and social radical. Sinead O’Shea’s thoughtful documentary weaves effectively O’Briens professional and personal triumphs and difficulties, in a portrait of an iconoclast who stood in resistance to the Irish conservative doctrine of the mid-twentieth century.
Featuring an insightful and affecting interview with Edna from just before her passing, the film richly honours her legacy, as well as her profound passion and dedication to art.
SAT 16 | CINEMAX BANTRY | 14:30
SAT 16 | GATE MIDLETON | 14:30
SAT 16 | GATE MALLOW | 14:30
SAT 16 | REGAL YOUGHAL | 14:30
MISERICORDIA (MISÉRICORDIE)
Subtitled, Fiction
In this exhilarating dark comedy that rocked the Cannes Film Festival, death is everywhere and yet a vital impetus defines all relations, gradually elevating scenes to stunning highs of comic outburst and philosophical shrewdness.
Jérémie comes back to the village where he used to live because a man he loved has just died. His presence disturbs a balance within the small community, with people reacting to him in intensely physical ways. Unearthing guilty secrets seems to come more easily to those ready to explore the dark corners of a forest to find the most delicious mushrooms.
The intimate bond between comedic culmination and a deep understanding of mankind’s common fatal destiny was never expressed so clearly. Misericordia is the crowning masterwork of French auteur Alain Guiraudie.
SAT 16 | CINEMAX BANTRY | 17:00
SAT 16 | GATE MIDLETON | 17:00
SAT 16 | GATE MALLOW | 17:00
SAT 16 | REGAL YOUGHAL | 17:00
